Kyocera K122 and K132 bring ultra low end to CDMA

by Chris Ziegler posted Sep 13th 2006 at 5:38PM

Handset announcements from the floor of this fall's CTIA have come surprisingly few and far between, but Kyocera took the opportunity to show off two new entry-level handsets targeted primarily at international CDMA markets. The K132 clamshell is the "premium" device of the two -- and we use that term very loosely here -- featuring a color display, speakerphone, support for the 800 and 1900MHz bands, and a "soft touch" finish. The bare bones K122 strips away virtually every nonessential feature, leaving a basic, single-band candybar with a grayscale display. In this whole emerging markets game, we'd take a MOTOFONE any day over the K122, though we suspect the latter will find its way into consumer's hands sooner; expect both the K122 and its K132 sibling to drop before winter sets in.

Filed under: Handsets, Kyocera, CDMA

Tags: candybar, clamshell, ctia, emerging, flip, k122, k132, kyocera, low end, low-end, LowEnd, markets, ultra low end, ultra low-end, UltraLow-end, UltraLowEnd

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T-Will @ Sep 14th 2006 1:36AM

Oh hi..what year are we in again? 1995? Flippin' sweet grayscale screen!

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